x86/vdso: Improve the fake section headers

Fully stripping the vDSO has other unfortunate side effects:

 - binutils is unable to find ELF notes without a SHT_NOTE section.

 - Even elfutils has trouble: it can find ELF notes without a section
   table at all, but if a section table is present, it won't look for
   PT_NOTE.

 - gdb wants section names to match between stripped DSOs and their
   symbols; otherwise it will corrupt symbol addresses.

We're also breaking the rules: section 0 is supposed to be SHT_NULL.

Fix these problems by building a better fake section table.  While
we're at it, we might as well let buggy Go versions keep working well
by giving the SHT_DYNSYM entry the correct size.

This is a bit unfortunate: it adds quite a bit of size to the vdso
image.

If/when binutils improves and the improved versions become widespread,
it would be worth considering dropping most of this.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0e546a5eeaafdf1840e6ee654a55c1e727c26663.1403129369.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso-fakesections.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso-fakesections.c
index cb8a8d72c24b..56927a7e4977 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso-fakesections.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso-fakesections.c
@@ -2,31 +2,23 @@
  * Copyright 2014 Andy Lutomirski
  * Subject to the GNU Public License, v.2
  *
- * Hack to keep broken Go programs working.
- *
- * The Go runtime had a couple of bugs: it would read the section table to try
- * to figure out how many dynamic symbols there were (it shouldn't have looked
- * at the section table at all) and, if there were no SHT_SYNDYM section table
- * entry, it would use an uninitialized value for the number of symbols.  As a
- * workaround, we supply a minimal section table.  vdso2c will adjust the
- * in-memory image so that "vdso_fake_sections" becomes the section table.
- *
- * The bug was introduced by:
- * https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=56ea40aac72b (2012-08-31)
- * and is being addressed in the Go runtime in this issue:
- * https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=8197
+ * String table for loadable section headers.  See vdso2c.h for why
+ * this exists.
  */
 
-#ifndef __x86_64__
-#error This hack is specific to the 64-bit vDSO
-#endif
-
-#include <linux/elf.h>
-
-extern const __visible struct elf64_shdr vdso_fake_sections[];
-const __visible struct elf64_shdr vdso_fake_sections[] = {
-	{
-		.sh_type = SHT_DYNSYM,
-		.sh_entsize = sizeof(Elf64_Sym),
-	}
-};
+const char fake_shstrtab[] __attribute__((section(".fake_shstrtab"))) =
+	".hash\0"
+	".dynsym\0"
+	".dynstr\0"
+	".gnu.version\0"
+	".gnu.version_d\0"
+	".dynamic\0"
+	".rodata\0"
+	".fake_shstrtab\0"  /* Yay, self-referential code. */
+	".note\0"
+	".data\0"
+	".altinstructions\0"
+	".altinstr_replacement\0"
+	".eh_frame_hdr\0"
+	".eh_frame\0"
+	".text";